A sea of troubles

[muckefuck]

A Friend (IRL, an acquaintance) posted in his LJ:

Well, I'm not an Iraqi mother trying to comfort her children right now. She must be the most sorrowful creature on the planet right now.

I didn't want to respond there, because it would've sounded crass, but I don't agree. The most sorrowful creatures on the planet are suffering in countries where there are no reporters "embedded" in platoons or holed up in hotels in the capital waiting for footage of aerial bombardment. The EU is not meeting to discuss reconstruction of their devastated homelands and there isn't a raft of NGOs waiting to play watchdog during the occupation. The world has forgotten them, and they know it.

Cold comfort to the Iraqis, of course, but worth keeping in mind as we focus minutely on one trouble spot on a troubled globe.

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Re: pitiful

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

What seems to have escaped a lot of people is that the WMDs and the resources are linked. Some pundit said that if Iraq produced eggplants instead of oil, then we wouldn't be invading it. Well, DUH! If it didn't produce oil, it would be too fucking poor to buy enriched flour, much less enriched uranium! Like Sudan. I shudder to think how the southern Sudanese would be suffering if their government had access to Saddam's arsenals.